Study Motivation
- Studies show that happy people function more effectively and help
society more
- What factors veritably influence satisfaction and overall
happiness?
- Is financial stability truly the best measure of happiness?
- Findings may be relevant to development programs
Dataset
- 2013 Tangail Survey Data
- 1430 Households Represented
- Measured income, immigration status, household size, ownership of
vehicles/animals/appliances, etc
- Also measured life satisfaction in various aspects of life such as
leisure time and community
Data Preparation
- Assigned proper values to the different kind of NAs and removing the
remaining missing data
- Assigned factor and numeric values
- Added the monthly income variables to get total monthly income
- Used forcats package in order to alter the life satisfaction
variables into proper categories from solely being characters
- Created aggregate measure of happiness (40 point scale) based on 11
satisfaction variables
- Used aggregate measure to create factored class variables that split
the observations into 2 classes, so that we could determine the best
predictors via random forest classification